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Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

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Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

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Do you love cooking homestyle food for your family?

Cooking has always been so important in my family. I remember cooking homestyle food with my mom and grandma growing up. Nothing was better than a home cooked meal and smelling delicious smells coming from the kitchen.

One of the things my grandma would make was rigatoni and it was always so delicious. I can still remember smelling it cooking and even going over to eat her leftovers after school.

It’s important to me to recreate these memories of eating homestyle recipes and memories for my kids. I want them to remember the smells of homestyle cooked food coming from the kitchen and maybe someday want to cook those meals on their own.

Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

I like to simplify things right now since I have a toddler and am usually pretty sleepy from our sleepless nights. Using a pressure cooker is great for that and makes dinner time so easy.

This week we made Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs using the new Homestyle Thick & Hearty Roasted Garlic from Ragu. To make this you will only need 3 ingredients and it will only take about 15 minutes prep/cook time. Talk about a great meal for a busy momma on a budget!

Here’s What You Need:

  1. Mix dry rigatoni in pressure cooker with 2 jars of Ragu Homestyle
  2.  Mix in frozen meatballs
  3. Mix in 1/2 cup of water for the noodles to absorb when cooking.
  4. Cook on pressure setting for 25 minutes.
  5. Serve with your favorite hot bread

Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

When you mix the pasta, sauce, and meatballs in your pressure cooker it should be about halfway full.

Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

It smells so tasty when cooking. You can really smell the garlic from the Ragu homestyle.

Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

When our Rigatoni came out of the pressure cooker it looked so good and smelled amazing. Just like the homestyle Rigatoni my grandma would make!

Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

It makes enough for a family of 4-5 to dig in and enjoy! The Ragu Homestyle sauce makes it taste homemade with no additional seasonings or additions needed.

Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

Pressure Cooker Rigatoni With Meatballs

What does homestyle mean to your family? Which flavor of Ragu Homestyle would you most like to try? I would love to hear from you in the comments below! 

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Samantha Ramos

Samantha Ramos has her B.A. in Special Education. She is a stay at home mom and homeschooler to 3 children in Southern California. Her biggest passion is positive parenting and helping moms find simple solutions to every day mom problems!

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Comments

  5. Tammie Venne

    such a hard decision, I think that I would try 3 of them but number one would probably be the 4 cheese

  9. Sharon Braswell

    Homestyle to me, means made by Mom fresh from scratch thick and with lots of love! I would most want to try the Homestyle Ragu Thick and Hearty Traditional. Thank You!!

  10. Amber S.

    I’d love to try the Thick & Hearty Roasted Garlic. I’ve tried the Mushroom and the Four Cheese and they were fantastic!

  17. latoya

    I would most like to try the thick and hearty roasted garlic because I love the flavor that garlic adds to foods.

  20. Jalisa Neale

    I would love to try the Homestyle Thick & Hearty Four Cheese Sauce – I’m sure this would make a great pasta!

  22. Jammie

    I want to try the thick and hearty mushroom sauce, love mushrooms the more the better.

  23. susan smoaks

    I really can’t wait to try the Thick and Hearty Mushroom. I would use it on everything.

    • Samantha

      Hi Tammy! I haven’t tried the Traditional yet, but am excited to try all the flavors. So far, the garlic is my favorite.

  32. Lisa V.

    I used to make my own sauce from my garden…that means homestyle to me. I would like to try the Roasted Garlic sauce.

  35. Jennifer W

    I would like to try the Homestyle Thick & Hearty Traditional Sauce. It sounds like it would be very good.

  41. Daile Fordoski

    I love using my pressure cooker, great recipe! i would love to try the four cheese. Thanks for sharing

  43. Rachel O.

    Thick and Hearty Four Cheese Ragu sounds great! I grew up on Ragu cheese pasta sauce. :) This looks delicious- how long do you think would take in a crockpot?

  54. Christine

    Homestyle Thick & Hearty Four Cheese Sauce! Wow looking at that rigatoni with meatballs even at 9am is making me super hungry! Totally not breakfast food but it looks sooo good!

      • Christine

        I think I’m gonna try it this week, and it very well may be breakfast lol. Not sure if anyone else in the house is gonna want rigatoni with meatballs before noon but I still do!

  56. Saegan Anderson

    “homestyle” to me means warm and good! homemade by mom! i would want to try HOMESTYLE THICK & HEARTY ROASTED GARLIC SAUCE

    • Samantha

      Isn’t homestyle food made from your mom or grandma the best kind? I really miss my grandma’s home cooking and am glad she passed some of it down to me. Thanks for stopping by Saegan! :)

  59. Tiffany S

    I would really like to try the Homestyle thick and hearty roasted garlic sauce.

  60. Natalie

    I would love to try the Homestyle Thick & Hearty Roasted Garlic Sauce. The more garlic the better!!

  68. Emily Benzing

    I would love to try the thick & hearty meat sauce! I love meat flavors and Ragu is always absolutely delicious!

  71. Elizabeth

    I would try the Homestyle Thick and Hearty Traditional Sauce! It looks yummy. :)

  72. Crystal Sell

    I would most like to try Homestyle Thick & Hearty Four Cheese Sauce. I love using their sauces in my lasagna, spaghetti, and other pasta dishes.

  73. Justin Sparks

    thick and hearty Four Cheese!!! Mmm Mmm Im actually having spaghetti tonight!!!

  74. Char

    I really would love to make some four cheese sauce! My family would love this so much, thank you!

  78. Nicole

    I would love to try the Four Cheese sauce! By the way, this recipe looks awesome! Totally going to have to try it out.

  79. Valencia

    I would like to try the Four Cheese Sauce. I can see by the other comments that I am not the only one intrigued by pressure cookers.

  80. Christina G.

    I would most like to try the Thick & Hearty Four Cheese. Thanks for the giveaway!

  81. Gina M

    I would love to try the Homestyle 4 Cheese Variety! Yummy!!!

    Thanks for the chance to win!
    wildorchid985 at gmail dot com

  92. Barbara

    I’d love to try the Thick & Hearty Four Cheese sauce. I never thought about cooking spaghetti and meatballs in my pressure cooker. I don’t use mine very often because I’m not always sure what to do with it but this is a good idea.

    • Samantha

      Hi Barbara! The pressure cooker can be pretty intimidating. But, once you get the hang of it it’s super easy and cooks tasty meals quickly. Thanks for stopping by. :)

  93. Holly C.

    thick and hearty mushroom for sure! love mushrooms, they taste meaty so you do not have to add so much ground beef!

  95. mary

    I have never used a pressure cooker, but my mom always used one when I was growing up. Your dish looks very tasty! I would love to try it with the Roasted Garlic Sauce. maryharne@gmail{dot}com

  96. Margaret Smith

    I’d love to try the Homestyle Thick & Hearty Roasted Garlic Sauce. We love Ragu Sauces, but I haven’t tried this flavor yet.

    • Samantha

      Hi Margaret! The roasted garlic was so tasty and with Ragu Homestyle they use fresh garlic so the flavor really comes out. Thanks for stopping by!

  97. Ellie Wright

    I’ve never cooked with a pressure cooker before. I will have to get one. We love Ragu’s red sauces but I want to try their Alfredo soon.

    • Samantha

      I was a bit intimidated to use my pressure cooker at first, but now I use it to cook all kinds of things. Thanks for stopping by Ellie! :)

  98. Stephanie Phelps

    Homestyle means using only fresh ingredients and making it with love. I would love to try the HOMESTYLE THICK & HEARTY MUSHROOM SAUCE

  100. Laurajj

    Oh that looks so good! I have never used a pressure cooker before, I need to get one of those! My family would love your rigatoni meatballs! I think I would try the RAGÚ Homestyle Thick & Hearty Mushroom Sauce first, although they all sound delicious!

  102. Carmella

    I love that pressure cookers are becoming popular. I really want to try the four cheese sauce, the roasted garlic one was insanely full of flavor!

    • Samantha

      Me too! They are a lifesaver. The garlic one was very tasty I can’t wait to try the other flavors. Thanks for stopping by Carmella.